Christopher Francis Fox, Baron Fox (born 27 September 1957), is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

Fox grew up in Herefordshire, attending Leominster Grammar School.^[1] He went on to study at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in chemistry.^[2] During his time at university Fox spent a year as President of the Imperial College Students' Union.^[3][4]

Fox's professional career began with engineering roles in the petroleum and nuclear industries. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at Tate & Lyle, before joining Smiths Group and, later, GKN, as Group Director of Communications.^[5][6]

Fox served as Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats (UK) from 2009 and 2011.^[7] In this role he managed the party through the 2010 General Election and the beginning of the Cameron-Clegg Coalition Government. He has been credited with overseeing a major reorganisation of the party's campaigns staff, moving the party out of its historic Cowley Street HQ to more modern offices on Great George Street, and introducing a new online election database system.^[8]

Since 2017, Fox has been a patron of children's charity, WAVE Trust.^[9]

Chris Fox was created a life peer as Baron Fox, of Leominster in the County of Herefordshire, on 11 September 2014, following nomination by Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.^[10]

Since becoming a Member of the House of Lords, Lord Fox has taken an interest in policy relating to business, industry, science and technology.^[11] From June 2015 he was a member of the Lords Science and Technology Committee, in July 2019 changing to be a member of the Economic Affairs Committee.^[12][13]

In June 2017, Lord Fox was appointed Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the House of Lords.

A critic of Brexit, Lord Fox was one of several Peers to oppose the UK Government's post-referendum negotiations and legislative agenda.^[14] In 2020, he described the Government's Internal Market Bill as "illegal".^[15] In 2023, Fox led parliamentary opposition to the Retained EU Law Bill, leading to concessions from the government.^[16]

He is Vice President of the German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and an Executive member of the British-American Parliamentary Group.^[17]

In May 2020 The Daily Telegraph reported that Fox had furloughed himself under the government financed COVID support scheme in his single employee company, Vulpes Advisory, which had a £100,000 cash balance, as well as claiming his £162 daily allowance for Lords Zoom video meetings attendance. The newspaper critically characterised this as a "double dip into the taxpayers' pocket", and some MPs said this was "milking the taxpayer".^[18] Fox apologised for his "error in judgment" and promised to repay the furlough money.^[19]